Brand New User — Free Trial of 6.5.3?

I work for a Film School that has recently made the switch to Avid (yay!), and I have been charged with creating a step-by-step "how to" doc for downloading a trial version of Avid (students cut mostly at the school, but they are encouraged to download a free trial before class starts so they can familierize themselves with the program).

Here's the catch: Because our computers are a generation or so back, the Media Composer we have decided to teach is 6.3.5.

So that puts me in the position of having to track down — and report on — how to download a trial of this older version of Media Composer.

I've ravaged (as best I know how) the Avid website for links, but all I can find trial-wise are MC 7 downloads. Other places that turn up on Google searches seem highly suspect. Obviously we want no back-alley deals here.

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who only consider the price are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin (1819-1900)